Definition of Neighbouring

1. Adjective. (British Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to. ¹

2. Adjective. (alternative spelling of neighboring) ¹

3. Verb. (British Canada) (present participle of neighbour) ¹

4. Verb. (alternative spelling of neighboring) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Neighbouring

1. neighbour [v] - See also: neighbour

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neighbouring

neighborless
neighborlier
neighborliest
neighborliness
neighborred
neighbors
neighborship
neighborships
neighbour
neighboure
neighboured
neighbouress
neighbourhood
neighbourhoods
neighbouring (current term)
neighbouring(a)
neighbouring group
neighbouring group participation
neighbourless
neighbourliness
neighbourly
neighbours
neighbourship
neighbourships
neighed
neighing
neighings
neighs
neishout

Literary usage of Neighbouring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... and leaving them afterwards upon the neighbouring more, ... by the neighbouring ponds and marines, obliged them to remove to La C;ille, another inlet, ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1846)
"In the work of destruction, the ambition of the Romans was often checked and repulsed by the neighbouring cities and their allies : in the first siege of ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1811)
"As soon, however, as the gloom began to disperse, exertions were made at the Cape of Good Hope, and at the neighbouring Isle of Bourbon, to dispute the ..."

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